BLADE brings together the world’s first exclusive collection of advertising masterworks in a massive 450 page, full colour publication. Our eclectic survey of cutting edge communications gathers the wit and wisdom of the worlds leading creatives. Only the most compelling copy, captivating designs and dynamic brand identities are showcased in a publication that shifts the way we look at advertising.
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Pocko’s first children’s book is out now… introducing kika, the amazing little rabbit! This colourful and tactile book, drawn by Japanese artist Fukiko Yamamoto entertains and educates 0-3 year olds. “Kika is… spunky, expressive and unique.
Series 4 - “SPEAK AND BE HEARD!”
Pocko, the worlds very own 21st century art missionaries draw our attention to the insatiable voice of creative freedom: fly-poster art, travelling art and believe it or not, your art. The Pocko imagination, bottled at source brings six more visual books surging into life:
EL Cártel, a book of fly-posters that have been displayed all over Madrid, broadcasting visual allegories on western life, society and politics.
Postman, brings us a cynical collection of comic images, each one painted directly onto envelopes and posted around the world.
DIY, is the most telling edition, a blank sketchbook purpose made to encourage a global brainstorm.
In Cheap Pop, reality is not always what it seems, you find yourself pixelated inside the graphic world of computer games and Japanese pop iconography.
Hot Wheels, presents us with the obscure side of humanity’s savage love affair with the car buzzing insanely behind the wheel of a supersonic post apocalyptic drag race auto.
Faulty, the awesome grasp of fervent love, deviant and yet compelling, where image and text merge in poetic constellation. (more…)
Series 3 -War and Innocence
Culture clash! Pocko’s third set brings you visual dispatches from the frontline of cultural change. As globalisation accelerates alien cultures are brought inexorably into contact with each other and disruption and weirdness is the inevitable result… Young Japanese girls juggle individualism with traditional Japanese values, a maverick designer takes a look at Finland’s landscape through pixelated eyes, in the former Soviet Union artists and soldiers become unlikely bedfellows, in the mind of a Japanese artist order and disorder become one and on the streets of London an artist of Tamil origin samples freely from the iconography of revolutionary movements and western popular culture.
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